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-rw-r--r-- | ranger/core/loader.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ranger/core/loader.py b/ranger/core/loader.py index e890c11f..1033d154 100644 --- a/ranger/core/loader.py +++ b/ranger/core/loader.py @@ -269,8 +269,9 @@ def safeDecode(string): # pylint: disable=invalid-name return string.decode("utf-8") except UnicodeDecodeError: if HAVE_CHARDET: - codec = chardet.detect(string)["encoding"] - return string.decode(codec, 'ignore') + encoding = chardet.detect(string)["encoding"] + if encoding: + return string.decode(encoding, 'ignore') return "" |